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"I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on the human race!"-King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 1:13
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"Looking and thinking in that matter you may suddenly come to see, in a flash, the profound rightness of the basic conviction in Vedanta: it is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling, and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling, and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sensitive beings."
-Erwin Schrödinger, quoted in Ken Wilber, Quantum Questions (1984, pp.96-97)
“Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.”
-Al Capone
“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
-Aristotle
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
-Winston Churchill
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
-Albert Einstein
"Think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things." - Stephen Covey
"Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat." -unscrambled from Gaia's "Everything Is Fine" 2016
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